Description
OpenHuman is an open-source agent harness available as a desktop application and Rust library. Before 0.57.13, OpenHuman places names, descriptions, titles, and parameter definitions returned by configured external MCP servers into the agent model context without neutralizing instructions or bounding the descriptive fields. The McpRemoteTool records produced by list_tools preserve this remote content, while tool filtering considers the tool name and the prompt-injection detector screens user messages rather than MCP definitions. A malicious or compromised MCP server can therefore return a poisoned description that is evaluated on every agent turn and may direct the model to invoke other available tools, disclose accessible data, or perform unauthorized actions without a separate malicious user message. The issue affects users who configure an attacker-controlled or compromised MCP server. This issue is fixed in version 0.57.13.
Published: 2026-11-05
Score: 8.3 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: Remote code execution via LLM context injection
Action: Immediate Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

OpenHuman accepts metadata from external MCP servers and inserts values such as names, titles, and descriptions directly into the internal LLM prompt. The payloads are not sanitized or bounded, so an attacker who controls or compromises an MCP server can supply a crafted description that contains LLM instructions. On each agent turn those instructions are evaluated, allowing the model to execute arbitrary tool calls, harvest data or perform actions that would normally be protected by user prompts. Because the agent trusts the server payload, the malicious instructions can bypass normal safety checks, leading to remote code execution or data exfiltration.

Affected Systems

Users running TinyhumansAI OpenHuman before version 0.57.13 are affected, including the desktop application and the Rust library used as an SDK. The issue manifests whenever an MCP server that is under attacker control or compromised is registered with the agent. Both single-user setups and multi-user deployments that rely on external MCP services fall into this scope. The fix was released in OpenHuman 0.57.13, which sanitizes server‑provided descriptions.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 8.3 classifies this as a high‑severity vulnerability with potential for remote code execution. EPSS is not available, so a concrete exploitation probability cannot be quantified, but the lack of KEV listing suggests no widespread exploitation yet. The attack requires that the attacker can host or subvert an MCP server, which is feasible in many environments that interface with third‑party MCP providers. Once the server is compromised, the malicious description is processed on every agent cycle, making exploitation trivial for the attacker. Immediate remediation is therefore essential.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on November 5, 2026 at 17:37 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Upgrade OpenHuman to 0.57.13 or later
  • Restrict or audit MCP server configuration to ensure only trusted servers are used, or whitelist known safe domains
  • If an upgrade cannot be applied immediately, disable or filter the injection of external MCP descriptions into the LLM prompt, or use a sandboxed agent that isolates untrusted content

Generated by OpenCVE AI on November 5, 2026 at 17:37 UTC.

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History

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Description OpenHuman is an open-source agent harness available as a desktop application and Rust library. Before 0.57.13, OpenHuman places names, descriptions, titles, and parameter definitions returned by configured external MCP servers into the agent model context without neutralizing instructions or bounding the descriptive fields. The McpRemoteTool records produced by list_tools preserve this remote content, while tool filtering considers the tool name and the prompt-injection detector screens user messages rather than MCP definitions. A malicious or compromised MCP server can therefore return a poisoned description that is evaluated on every agent turn and may direct the model to invoke other available tools, disclose accessible data, or perform unauthorized actions without a separate malicious user message. The issue affects users who configure an attacker-controlled or compromised MCP server. This issue is fixed in version 0.57.13.
Title OpenHuman: MCP tool description injection: untrusted server descriptions execute in agent LLM context without sanitization
Weaknesses CWE-1427
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-05T16:13:31.126Z

Reserved: 2026-06-11T21:15:33.870Z

Link: CVE-2026-54140

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-05T17:18:18.910

Modified: 2026-11-05T17:18:18.910

Link: CVE-2026-54140

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Updated: 2026-11-05T17:45:06Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-1427

    Improper Neutralization of Input Used for LLM Prompting